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Whether you have stacks of cooking or home décor magazines, clothing catalogs or gossip weeklies, recycling pages from those periodicals into something beautiful is not only eco-friendly but very craft-craving satisfying.

NEED

Magazines

Glue

Scissors

Stapler

Pencil

HOW

Rip out a stack of pages from a magazine

Accordion-fold the paper long-length-wise into four sections and unfold

Each crease line will be the altitude of 3 isosceles triangles, cut out the triangles

Roll a paper triangle around the shaft of a pencil, starting from the base and ending with the tip, glue down the tip of the triangle to the rolled paper underneathRepeat these steps until you have approximately, 15 rolls

Accordion-fold the paper short-length-wise into four sections and unfold

Each crease line will be the altitude of 3 isosceles triangles, cut out the triangles

Roll a paper triangle around the shaft of a pencil, starting from the base and ending with the tip, glue down the tip of the triangle to the rolled paper underneath

Repeat these steps until you have approximately, 15 rolls

Using the cover of the magazine (if it is a heavier cardstock) or some thin cardboard, cut out a slightly arching band

Cut the rolls to different lengths to mimic the varied but symmetrical shape of a crown or tiara

Fan out the rolls onto the band and glue down

If you desire, glue down a second set of rolls onto the first set to give the crown more dimension

Allow crown to dry

Once the crown is dry, gently bend the crown into a curve

Cut out a second band from a magazine cover/cardboard and staple it at both ends to the crown-band